The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1887-07-09
The young lady smiled.

''lt's AleckF' cried Louie. ana,
Aleck, she's Tiny. Why don'tyo shake
hands9"
Lottie might we'll be surprised at my
stupidity, There stood, stock still,
staring at the young lady, who was re-
garding me curiously.
"Lottie told me that you had sent for
me-that you wished particularly to see
me, )" she said, in half-doubtful, apollo
getic tone.
81 did send for you; but must con-
fess that have been laboring under
strange mistake. l had an idea that
Tiny was a little girl.
She broke into laugh, and Lottie
said, with shocked expression:
"Why, brother Aleck, was that the
reason you brought her doll and
Noah's arkP'
l felt my face suddenly grow hot and
flushed, as the young ladys eyes wan
dered to the articles in question, lying
conspicuously arrayed upon the table.
Then she looked at me. For an instant
her lips dimpled and quivered in the at
tempt to suppress her mirth, but the
next she broke into an irresistible fit of
laughter. in which | was compelled to
join.
"Lottie," I said, drawing her to me,
and speaking with intense gravity,
"why did you not tell me that cousin
Tiny was grown-up young lady9"
"Why, didn'tyou know2 Don't you
remember when sister Sophie wrote for
them to come. it was Tiny that wrote
back, because her mamma had head
ache2 And she said they would be here
Tuesday, and then we knew she wasn't
little girl"
mo, Lottie, your letter to me did not
give that important information, But
you did. say that Tiny and you had fine
times in the garden"
$50 we did had, J" interrupted Lottie,
stoutly. 'fWeve put up the hammocks,
and Sophie and Tiny read aloud there.
She tells me fairy tales and makes my
dolPs dresses"
''But did you not tell me that she was
sorry that she had not brought her OWE
doll with herr"
Eyes; because she has great, big,
lovely French doll, the last one she ever
had; and she kept it to give to
some little girl, and she meaus to
give it to me-"
'tBut you said she loved French bon
bons" continued with redoubled seri-
BUSINESS.
Lottie drew forth pockethandker-
chief of about six inches square, and
applied it to her eyes.
'T-I didn't mean to make you think
she was little girl. She said she loved
bon -bons."
"And so I do, Lottie, and am not
ashamed to confess it," said Tiny, still
laughing, and drawing the child to her
caressingly-on which the tears instantly
gave place to sunshine.
"There's a whole boxfuI of 'emr p she
said, enthusiastically. "Such lovely
onesp'
"And when, presently. my mother
and Mrs. Porter and Sophie came in they
founI Lottie kneeling in chair at the
table, sorting and admiring her share Of
the confectionery, and Tiny munching
chocolate bonbons, and every now and
then breaking into little musical laugh
as her eyes wandered to the Noah's ark
and the doll, with which / had so con-
siderately provided her.
OF course, the joke was instantly told
by the irrepressibIe Lottie, and duly
enjoyed by the rest.
"The mistake" mother explained,
call came of my not remembering that
Cousin Oliver as well as Hector, had a
daughter Alkaline. And only think,
Aleck, that had had trundle- bed put
up for Tinyp
Tiny and her mother were persuaded
to stay with US two weeks; and not long
after they left US paid them visit at
Their own home.
That was nearly five years ago, and
now there is second Tiny, more de-
serving the name, who is at this moment
playing with the very doll and Noah's
arx that I opoe I,o,,,,bt for bar ,,,o4I,or